INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE SEVEN fceiieve the Moewe had more tcaa a off the starboard side with a prize at Dixmude. I said: "Feet, do your aronl had been cooked in, and ne was three-fourths-inch armor plate, but behind crew from the Moewe aboard and wigwagging duty." They did it and I flew up the holding it over the side when the vessel that she had three rows of pig to the raider. fiddley. I never wanted to see that rolled heavily, and dropped the Iron, which made about afoot In thickness. Then the Huns began shouting and stoke hole again. dixie into the briny. sentry who A There was nothing but cable they rousted us below deck again. The I sneaked up to where the rest of saw him drop it forced him up to strung along the deck and when I saw place where we had been was filled the fellows were and the guards Badewitz, who began mauling him before that I would have given anything to with smoke, from what or why do I drilled us into No. 4 hold. There was the sentry even had told his have had a crack at her with a 14-inch not know, but it was almost impossible nothing but ammunition in it. They story. After a while Badewitz quit naval. And I sure wished hard enough to breathe in it. When the battened the hatches down on us, pounding the cook, and listened to the that one of our ships would slip up on smoke cleared up a bit the Marathon which made the hold waterproof. And sentry. Then Badewitz said the cook us. whether we were caught between started again, for we were still in our as that made it practically airtight the had put a note in the dixie before he decks or not. I went aft as far as the underwear only. One of the boys had only air the 580 of us got was through dropped it, so they beat him up again sentry would let me and I sajy that asked Fritz for clothing and Fritz said the ventilators. That hold was certainly and put him in irons. After that they she had three spare six-inch guns under the-English had tough enough skins foul. sent the rest of the cooks back, and the poop deck and two six-inch and they did not need clothing. Then They next day some of the men had would not let them on deck again. pieces mounted astern. The guns were he said: "Wait until you see what our They had plenty of canned goods and got cigarettes somewhere. In a few Albert Dope: mounted on an elevator and when the German winters are like." minutes they as well as the rest had meat aboard, but they would not give time came they ran the elevator up The following morning the engines lit up and were puffing away in great us any. until the guns were on a level with the began to tear away again and the style. I divided a cigarette with another Five of the men were buried at sea poop deck, but otherwise they were guns started firing. After a while the fellow. Remember, we were sitting that day. More men were going mad out of sight from other ships. firing stopped and the engines too, and and standing on ammunition all every minute, and it was a terrible EX'GUNNER AND CHIEF PETT^OFFfCERrU.^NAVY For our first meal they slung a big 'after an hour they had the old man this time. It shows how much we place pitch dark, grimy, loose coal, MEMBER. OF THE FOREIGN LEGION OF FRANCE feed bag half full of ship biscuit— of the Yarrowdale aboard. She was a cared whether school kept or not. underfoot, coal-dusty air to breathe,, hardtack—to us and some dixies of British ship chartered by the French CAPTAIN GUN TURRET, FRENCH BATTLESHIP tASSAKD body-filth everywhere. Some of thecrazy The Germans saw the smoke coming tea. After this festival we began and bound for Brest and Liverpool WINNER OF THE CROIX DE GUERRE men howled like dogs. But we out of the ventilators and they roaming up and down the deck again, with a very valuable cargo aboard— 'Ccpyitfli 1918, by Really and Brioon Ca, Through Special Arrangement With the George Matthew Adams Service were crazy with fright. A gang of were not as much afraid of these as, because it was the only way to keep airplanes, ammunition, food and automobiles. we were of the others who kept still, them laid below and rousted us out warm. I guess we looked like some but slipped around in the dark with with whips. to us tliey linci their revolvers out of the advertisements in magazines, When they rousted us on deck again lumps of coal in their hands. We They lined us up on deck and read and were waving them around and where they show a whole family sitting the St. Theodore was still in sight, but got so we would not go near each us the riot act. yelling, "Gott strafe England!" and around a Christmas tree in their she had the Yarrowdale for company. other for fear we were running into a They drilled us down into the coal talking about "schweinhunde." Then, underwear and telling each other that Both ^ere trailing behind us and keeping crazy man. Those of us who were bunkers. It was simply terrible there. the first thing I knew, I was kicked off Whosis Unions—the Roomy Kind— pretty close on. While we were sane collected as near the fiddley as Coal dust to breathe and eat and sleep into the sea. I slipped off ir.y trousers were just what they wanted from on deck we saw the German sailors at we could, and we would not let the on. and coat and clogs, and, believe me, it Santy. Only we did not have any work on the main deck making about others get near us, but shoved them Also, by this time some of the men was not a case of all dressed up and Christmas tree to sit around. We must ten rafts and when they began to place back or shied lumps of coal at them. had lost their heads completely in no place to go have looked funny, though, and I would tins of hardtack on the rafts, a tin to And every once in a while some one fact, had gone violently crazy, and the Then I swam hard and caught up to have had a good laugh if I had not each, we imagined they were going to of us would begin to act queer. Maybe rest of us were afraid of them. We the Limeys who had jumped first. Tliey been so cold. heave us over the side and let us go he would let out a howl suddenly, were all thinking of the fight that were asking each other if they were We coulfi not go to sleep because on the rafts. But instead they began without any warning. Or he would might occur any moment between the downhearted and answering, "Not a the decks were wet, nor could we sit telling us we would land in the States just quit talking and begin to sneak Yarrowdale and some other vessel and bit of it, me lads," and trying to sing, down with any comfort for the same and then they rousted us between around. Or he would squat down and we knew we were in the likeliest place 'Taclc up your troubles in your old kit reason. Besides, we thought we might decks again. begin to mumble. We could not tell for the vessel to be struck. Even bag," only they could not do much We had only been there a short time though we were not hit amidships, if singing on account of the waves that when some of the German officers came \£C PJ-AN OF TVB 'MOEWE* ton* the ship were sinking we did not think slipped into their mouths every time down and asked if. any of the men the Germans would give us a chance to they opened them. That was just like would volunteer to go firing on the escape. We figured from what they Limeys, though. Yarrowdale and we almost mobbed had said that we would go down with Some of the boys were just climbing them to take us. They began putting the ship. And going down on a ship in up the Jacob's ladder on the Moewe down the names of the men who were which you are a prisoner is quite different when the old Georgic let out an awful to go and I talked them into putting Gunner Depew from going down with one for roar and up went the deck and the mine down too. Then I felt about which you have been fighting. You hatches high in the air in splinters. five hundred pounds lighter. arrive at the same place, but the feeling One fellow let go his hold on the ladder Five o'clock came and by that time is different. and went down and he never came I had forgotten to do any worrying. A Narrative of the War Some of us thought of overpowering up. The Germans were making for the We received our usual rations and the crew and taking the vessel into our Moewe in the lifeboat and we reached most of us who had volunteered figured own hands, and we got the rest of it just before they did. Up the 'adder So entirely new— that we would receive clothes the sane or nearly sane men together we went and over the side and the and shoes. In the morning an officer and tried to get up a scheme for doing So big— first thing we caught sight of was the came down below and read out the it. I was strong for the plan and so German revolvers in our faces drilling names of those who were to go and I So thrilling- were several others, but the Limey officers lis all into line. felt even lighter when he called mine. who were with us advised The lifeboat brought back the ship's We were each given a life belt and against it. They said the Germans It Will Hold You Thai papers from the Georgic and we had mustered on deck. were taking us to a neutral country, roll call. They kept us up on deck in The sea was pretty nasty and some Spellbound! where we would be interned, which our wet underwear and it was very of the men had narrow escapes from was just what the Germans had told cold indeed. Then the mate and first falling between the Moewe and the us, but what few of us believed. the old man and one of the German lifeboats when the swells rocked us. SYNOPSIS. some Then others said that if we officers called off the names and we One man fell from the ladder and found we had fifty missing. started anything the Germans would broke his neck on the gunwale of the CHAPTER I—Albert N. Depew, author (Dn*m mtmurt fire the time bombs. We replied that Boche commander had ga41 The of the story, enlists in the United States lifeboat. They took over boat after navy, serving four years and attaining at least the Germans would go west enough to say that he was not there boat to the Yarrowdale until finally the rank of chief petty officer, first-class plate placing 6-in. guns. A—Armor drops, to kill men but to sink all ships that with us, but they could not see that gunner. we were all there. Then they mustered B—Forecastle peak. there was any glory in that. For myself, were supplying the allies! He said C—Ammunition hold. us on deck and warned us not to CHAPTER II—The great war starts I rails. thought the Germans would not England was trying to starve Germany, D—Torpedo tube a soon after he is honorably discharged None of Us Was Much Better Than start anything, because they had a E—Torpedo tubes. from the navy and he sails for France fire the bombs until the last minute, but that they would never succeed and Beast. time bomb in the engine room and two with a determination to enlist. F—Poop deck. and that we would have a chance at Germany would starve the allies that G—Aft wheelhouse. on the% bridge. Meantime they had CHAPTER III—He joins the Foreign very soon. the boats before they got all of us just when a man had begun to lose H—Deck- house. brought over several boatloads of hardtack Legion and is assigned to the dreadnaught J—Holds. anyway. There were only thirteen his mind. He would seem just like After roll call some of us asked the Cassard where his marksmanship wins and we threw it into No. 3 hold. mounted on K-Disappearing guns aft, him high honors. the rest of us, because none of us was German sailors on board, besides their clothes, or at least a Germans for This was to be our food for some time. elovator much better than a beast. commander. This last Hun was to dry ourselves in, but Fritz place from L—Soa gates. CHAPTER IV—Depew is detached of his ship and sent with a regiment the us the dust on the named Badewitz. We could not take turns sleeping could not see for I've1' up against a British or a French CHAPTER XVII. Legion to Flanders where he soon finds and standing watch against the crazy had to there So the pacifists ruled, because wo ocean and we just stand himself in the front line trenches. cruiser at any minute and most of us we shook the deck, almost. men, because when we talked about and Shiver till could not do anything unless we were thought we would stay up and tret an V—He artillery Landed in Germany. CHAPTER is detailed to the it, we agreed that none of us could I on all together, and there was no mutiny. Then went and sat down and makes the acquaintance of the eye full before we started for Davy's They had a coolie crew on the Yarrowdale "75's", the wonderful French guns that tell whether or not the sentric-s would winches. They said we were hotheads, the rest the pipes that feed the deck well-known locker. and when they routed them have saved the day for the allies on many I go of steam in of us, but still think we could have crazy while on watch and have the a he They had quite a head battlefield. Before seeing any action, About two bells the following niornluir deck the coolies began to pray, and on the of us is ordered back to his regiment, in tkeui I to feel more rest at their mercy. It was awful and was beginning made a dash for it and overpowered the Moewe's engines began to though it is nothing to laugh at I could front line trenches. to our talk about going crazy in this I good clout sentries, and either gone over the comfortable when got a groan and shake Iier up a bit and we not. help but chuckle nt the way some CHAPTER VI—Depew goes "over the way, to of the for sitting there and figure that you yourself alongside head side with the lifeboats, or taken over of could hear the blades jump out the top" and "gets" his first German in a bayonet them went about talking to their of might be the the whole ship. It have next, and that it was almost fight. and to keep warm. It was a would been trying wacer every once in a while and tear various gods. They were beginning to to happen if better us if we sure you did not German garby and he started calling for had tried, and if away. She went ahead in this way for CHAPTER VII—His company takes part smell danger and were pretty nervous. get some sleep But it was me all the various kinds of schweinhunde the pacifists had known what was soon. worse in anothar raid'on the German treaties some time and we were hoping she Every one Of the coolies had a cane and shortly afterward assists in stopping to find a man near you going, and have coming to us they would have fired lie could think of and he could was trying to get away from a cruiser a fierce charge of the Huns, who are and a pair of Palm Beach trousers. the time bombs themselves rather to boot him out with the other insane think of a lot. mowed down as they cross No Man's some of us were pulling for the find The Huns were loading them in the Land. men. Finally they mustered us all on than go on into that future. However, cruiser to win and others hoping the lifeboats to be taken back to the The days passed like that is spilt milk. that, with another part of the deck, then drilled CHAPTER VIII—Sent to Dixmude with Moewe would get her heels clear and Moewe with their sea bags and one of dispatches, Depew is caught in a Zeppelin nothing to do but suffer, and starve us down into the forecastle and read We were not allowed to open#the keep us from getting ours. raid, but escapes unhurt. them got too nervous and was slow and freeze. It got colder and colder, the martial law of Germany to us. portholes while we were in the bunkers, The Huns were running up and down about getting into the lifeboat, so the CHAPTER IX—He is shot through the and all we could wrap ourselves in At least I guess that is what it was. under penalty of death, and there the deck yelling like wild men and thigh in a brush with the Germans and Germans shot him without saying a was the coal. We began to speculate It might have been the "Help Wanted in the dark, in that stinking air, it Is is sent to a hospital, where he quickly one of our men began to yell too. He word. recovers. on where we were. It was not till —Dog Catchers" column from the Berlin no wonder many of us went crazy. was delirious and after he yelled a Then the Germans called out the later than an old skipper in our bunch CHAPTER X—Ordered back to sea duty, Lokal Taggabble for all most of us Among us was a fellow named Harrington, lit he jumped up and made a pass at names of those who had volunteered to Depew rejoins the Cassard, which makes told us we had rounded the northern that knew or cared. It shows what cards about six feet tall and weighing (ho sentry, who shot at him but several trips to the Dardanelles as a go stoking and this included me. We convoy. coast of Iceland. The Cassard is almost battered to the Germans are—reading all those 250 pounds. He seemed to be all missed. The shot missed me too. but were drilled down the fiddley into the pieces by the Turkish batteries. Finally, one day, a lad yelled down four-to-the-pound words to us shivering right mentally, but some of us not very much. Then they dragged fire room. The fiddley is a shaft that "Land!" and we all dove for the fiddley CHAPTER XI—The Cassard takes part garbles, who did not give a dime thought afterwards he was crazy. tlu» delirious man up on deck and Lord runs from the main deck of a ship to •n many hot engagements in the memorable like wild men, and those who a dozen whether we heard them or not. Anyway, I do not blame for what 1 ?)OVK what tliev did with him, because him Gallipoli campaign. 'he engine room. I looked around a could get near enough looked out, and Fritz is like some other hot sketches— he did. Harrington rushed up the we never saw him again. But we did hit and saw a German standing not CHAPTER XII—Depew is a member of sure enough! there was the coast of: he is funniest when he does not mean fiddley and opened the door. There a landing party which sees fierce fighting o( hear any sound that they rnigh^ very far from the fidd?ey, so I asked Norway, very rugged and rocky and:, in the trenches at Gallipoli. to be. Every German is a vaudeville was a German sentry there, and Harrington Lave male in shooting him. him if we would be given shoes. He covered with snow. We thought it. skit when he acts natural. made a swing at him and then CHAPTER XIII—After an unsuccessful trench raid, Depew tries to rescue two There were hammocks there an? v?« wounded men in No Man's Land, but both Then the Huns began shelling and grabbed bayonet. The sentry his was all over then, and that we would' said no. Then I asked him if we had die before he can reach the trenches. jumped-into them to get warm, bu' tU they kept it up for some time. yelled and some others came down be landed at Bergen sure. Then there, to fire in our fare feet and he said Germans came down with their revolvers CHAPTER XIV—Depew wins the Croix from the bridge and shot Harrington Then they ordered us up' on deck was the usual running around and yes—that we did not need shoes. Then de Guerre for bravery in passing through and bayonets and took the s&- to see the ship they had been firing at through the After they hand. had yelling on deck, and we were not a terrific artillery fire to summon aid to he went into the engine room. hammocks away and poured, water on his comrades in an advanced post. beaten Harrington pretty badly, the and when we came up the companion sure we would be landed, and very I looked at the narrow passage he the decks and told us to sleep there. bull of the bunch, Badewitz himself, suddenly it got colder than ever. CHAPTER XV—On his twelfth trip to went through and at the narrow passage They could not have done a worst the Dardanelles, he is wounded in a naval came over and hammered Harrington I was in the fiddley, aching to get: of the fiddley to the main deck engagement and, after recovering in a trick than that. all around the deck. Then they put hospital at Brest, he is discharged from out, and ready for anything that and I talked to my feet like I used to Then they put locks on the portholes service and sails for New York on the him in irons and took him to the chart might happen, when the door openedi steamer Georgic. and told us that anyone caught fiddling room. suddenly and Badewitz grabbed me,, with the locks would be shot at once. CHAPTER XVI—The Georgic is captured The next day we were sitting in the and asked me in English if I was a by the German raider Moewe. Depew, This was because we might sight a fiddley getting warm when the door with other survivors, is taken aboard quartermaster. I said yes, and he British or French man-of-war at any the Moewe. opened and there was Badewitz. He pulled me by the arm to a cabin. I time and as the Moewe was sailing under yelled "Heraus!" and began firing at CHAPTER XVn—Transferred to the did not know what was going to happen, the British flag and trying to keep Yarrowdale, which was captured later by us with a revolver, so we beat it back but he took an oilskin from the the Moewe, Depew and other prisoners out of trouble they did not want us onto'the coal. Pretty soon the door suffer terrible hardships until they arrive wall and told me to put it on. at the ports signaling our own warships in Germany. opened again. But it was only a German There were two sailors there also, for help. If they had bucked sentry. He threw down a note. CHAPTER XVIII—At Swlnemunde, they and they put life belts on, and then any of the allied ships and had a fight are placed in a prison camp where they It was written in English and read, I was more puzzled than ever, and suffer terribly from cold, hunger and mistreatment we would have died down there like "Pick out eight n$pn for cooks." So at the hands of the guards. scared, too, because I thought maybe rats. we picked out eight men from the various they were going to throw me over* CHAPTER XIX-The prisoners are The Mqewe had already captured vessels and they went on deck transferred to NeuBtrelit*, but get no better board, though what that had to db treatment there' than at Swinemunde. the Voltaire, Mount Temple, Cambrian and rigged up a galley aft with being a quartermaster I could Range and the King George and had But we did got receive any knives, Chapter XX—After several weeks at not see. Neustrelits, they are transferred once the crews of these vessels between forks, spoons or plates. The first But they drilled me up onto the more to Dulmen, Westphalia, experiencing decks with us. These men told us meal we got was nothing but macaro* more of the same brand of German Kultur bridge and told me to take the wheel. while making the Journey. how the Germans were treating them ni, piled up on pieces of cardboard What their idea was I do not know. and it looked'to me as though the ever boxes. Then we appointed four men CHAPTER XXI—Mr. Gerard, the American Possibly they wanted a noncombatant ambassador, visits Dulmen and when nlng would be spent in playing games to serve the macaroni, and they got at the wheel in case they were overhauled he finds Depew there, tells him he will and a pleasant time would be had by four pieces of wood, the cleanest we endeavor to secure his release. by a neutral vessel. We were all—not. could find, which was not very clean going full speed at the time, but asi CHAPTER XXII—Within a short time. The crew of the Mount Temple were at that, and they dug around in the Depew is transferred to another camp at soon as I took the wheel she cut down Brandenburg, known to prisoners as rThe on deck working when the raider suddenly macaroni and divided it up and put Hell Hole of Germany. to half speed, and stayed that way for opened fire on them. Two or it in our hands. We had to eat it half an hour. Then up to full speed CHAPTER XXIII—Ambassador Gerard three men jumped into the water and after that from our grimy fingers. again. leavies Germany, with the breaking of the Germans turned a gun on them Those who were helped first had to go diplomatic relations by the United States, Pretty soon there was a tramp but the Spanish ambassador visits the while they were swimming and killed farthest back on the coal to eat it, steamer on the starboard bow, and almost camp at Brandenburg and arranges for them. That was just a sample of what and those who were helped last got Depew's release. He finally reaches before I saw it, there were two Rorschach, Switzerland, and! is free. A had happened to them. less, because the dividers got more more sentries on each side of me, The Huns Were Running Up and The men now began running up and careful toward the end and gave CHAPTER XXIV—In Switzerland Depew prodding me with their revolvers and Down the Deck. ,r, gets the first real food he has tasted down in a line to keep -warm, but I smaller portions. In months. After betas showered with attentions A* warning me to keep on the course. V' took a little run on my own hook and he sails agsjflkjtor America way they were just bringing the^'other But we did not get macaroni very "$$ii The.v had civilian clothes on. arrives safely in ai^|Tork. treated myself to as much of a onceover id jn «. long. A cook from the Voltaire was ship's skipper aboard. It was the "Feet, Do Your Duty.'' (To be continued next week) of the shin as I could. I do not cleaning a copper dixie that the mae- French collier St. Theodore, hov^.to